Dott Projects
Castle Terrace
Low Carb Lane
Many of us would like to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from our energy use at home. Other people have different priorities. What we have in common is the desire to reduce our energy bills. How might energy efficiency be accessible, desirable and affordable for all – rich or poor, home owners and renters alike?

Dott’s Low Carb Lane team, led by Ben Reason and Alex Webb Allen, spent more than a year with the community at Castle Terrace in Northumberland. We learned about the social and economic situation of citizens affected by fuel poverty.
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Dott Debates
Dott Debates: What next?
Dott 07 held a series of debates during the Dott 07 Festival. In the debates we asked: what did we learn in the projects, and what do we do next?

Debates included Low Carb Lane, Design and Sexual Health, Food Systems and Cities, Better Lives with Dementia, The Movement Dilemma and Sustainability, Schools and Schooling. Speakers included people involved in the projects and influential people from key areas in the North East of England.

Read the transcripts or listen again to the guest speakers from the Dott Debates series.
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A year of projects and events that explored what life in a sustainable region could be like - and how design could help us get there.
Explorers Club - Speed Meeting
Explorers used conversation and practical tasks to develop potential solutions to every day problems. See the archive of events.
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Intersections 07 brought together leading thinkers in design to consider how design is evolving. Listen to the podcasts.
Chaos mapping in the Durham Necklace Park by Cipriano Martinez.
Find out how you can 'map the necklace' in the Durham Necklace Park without getting cold or wet!
Our Cyborg Future? on at the Discovery Museum
Our Cyborg Future? was an exhibition that looked at the shrinking divide between us and the technology we use.
Town Crier
If you missed the town crier listen again to an audio clip and download the scripts.